Greensboro College Football Drops Home Finale to Conference Champs

GREENSBORO, NC– In their final home game of 2024, the Greensboro Pride football team fell to the Maryville Scots 47-7 on Senior Day.

Greensboro struggled to move the ball for most of the game, while the Maryville offense (led by QB Bryson Rollins’ 317 passing yards and three touchdowns) gashed the Pride defense for 504 yards of offense.

For the Scots (7-1, 6-0 USA South), their win, coupled with a Brevard loss, gave them the USA South Conference Title and earns them a berth in the newly reformatted NCAA D3 football playoffs.

Greensboro trailed 16-0 at the half, with the Scots scoring on offense, defense, and special teams before the intermission. Maryville picked up where they left off in the second half, scoring twice in the first six minutes, including an 82-yard catch and run from Rollins to Steph Carter Jr. The Pride would get on the board minutes later when their own big-play WR Ja’Shawn Harris caught a screen from Josh Sims (16-31, 214 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT) and sprinted 42 yards for the touchdown.

That would prove to be the offensive highlight of the day for the Pride (1-8, 1-6 USA South), whose ground game was stifled by the conference’s best run defense. One week after notching a career high 140 yards, RB Tareek Smith was held to just 30 yards on 17 carries and the Pride as a while were limited to 253 yards of offense. After the Harris touchdown, the Scots would close out the game by scoring the final 17 points of the afternoon.

On the defensive side of the ball, Greensboro was led by JaJuan Givens’ 10 tackles. Cedric Crenshaw Jr. notched a sack, giving him 3.5 on the season and five for his career. Senior Max Steele notched seven tackles, putting him just four shy of Allen Stallings’ career record for total tackles. He’ll have an opportunity to break the record in his final collegiate game, when the Pride travel to Huntingdon next Saturday to close their 2024 season.